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AWESOME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game completely obliterates the others in the series, especially the Undergrounds. It takes the best of both worlds and combines them into one kick ass game. The graphics are awesome, the soundtrack is stellar, The cars rule, though I was disappointed that there was no online for the PS2 version, I quickly got over it when I started the career mode. I only have one real complaint: WHERE ARE THE NISSANS??? The Skyline, the 350Z, the 240SX? Those cars are some of the best tuners out and they aren't in the game. I thought that sort of sucked. anyway, that's the only complaint I have with the game, other than that, it RULES!! Especially the police chases. The cops act like real cops, unlke in previous games where they were easily evaded, they set up road blocks, they try to P.I.T you, everything. Well, I'm ending this review now, overall, the game is awesome. If you like Underground, you'll love this game. If you like Hot Pursuit, this is your fantasy. If you like high speed racing, this game is for you.

A GREAT GAME WITH ONE GLARING OMISSION

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 56 / 65
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is fast and fun, but with some tearing on the PS2 version. Poor PS2, it just can't handle the speed anymore. I can't wait for the PS3. I have a 41" Sony XBR Tube TV and my eyes were bleeding the first night of play. Wow!! My eye doctor gave me a bottle of teardrops for playing these types of games. Your eyes don't get washed by normal blinking and dry out because you're concentrating so much. Get yourself some REFRESH TEARS if you play race games for hours on end. You'll need it here. The graphics are good with nice rain and sunlight effects. The Dolby Pro Logic is some of the best surround I've heard in a game. The thunder coming out of my rear effects speakers was incredible. There's a WIDESCREEN feature. There is an option to mix the 26 songs in the jukebox anyway you like. I don't care for Hip Hop so I turned it all off and put all the Heavy Metal in random order. You can also sample every song to make your choice. If you don't like Heavy Metal or Hip Hop you can turn it ALL off and just listen to the sounds of the engines purring. The MENUS are confusing at first as there are many sub-menus within sub-menus. It took me 15 minutes just to figure out how to get out of CAREER MODE. (You must PAUSE, go to your SAFE HOUSE, and GO BACK two times to find the MAIN MENU.) It's not the most user friendly menu system I've seen.

This time NEED FOR SPEED mixes the free roaming city of the UNDERGROUND series with the heavy police presence of THE HOT PURSUIT games. The game has a million tracks and a million things to do.

The meat of the game is the CAREER MODE. This is where you acquire the stats in EVENTS, MILESTONE COMPETITIONS, and CHALLENGES to be challenged by the 15 MOST WANTED on THE BLACKLIST and open all the cars and some of the juicier parts for the cars. You'll meet all the characters in FMV which is a little weird, but kind of cool, for a racing game. The acting is good, but you can forward through all of them if you just want to race. Some of the characters will give you hints via messages on the SMS cellphone and email feature which you can manage by either keeping or deleting them. Along with acquiring stats you'll also need to make your presence known to the police and collect needed BOUNTY points so that when you have enough BOUNTY and stats you'll be challenged by a rival on THE BLACKLIST. Your RAP sheet contains all the info about your ALIAS. The funniest stat was for the amount of damage you've caused the State. CAREER MODE is where you FREE ROAM which is really unnecessary because you'll find yourself getting into the BLACKLIST with the press of a button to enter the events you need to be challenged by a rival. Once you enter an EVENT, CHALLENGE, MILESTONE COMPETITION or BOUNTY, it takes you were you need to go. There are also ICONS throughout the city that are also unnecessary for certain EVENTS. Just go into the BLACKLIST MENU to check off the things you need. However, you will need the WORLD MAP display to set the GPS system to show you where the parts SHOPS are. You can't go directly to them from the BLACKLIST or PAUSE MENU. You'll need to drive to them. You can get to the SAFE HOUSE (your garage) by just pressing the PAUSE button. You don't have to drive there. To me the free roaming around the city is rather moot unless you want to get the lay of the city for when the cops are chasing you. I just wing it with the MINI MAP provided in the lower left corner of the screen looking for the SPEEDBREAKER and COOL DOWN spots. The only time you use the whole city, which opens up later with more sections, is when you're running from the cops. The rest of the events are set courses that you must follow to beat.

Other MODES are QUICK RACE with QUICK PLAY where the game gives you the car for the track you select. The manual tells you to play this MODE because it will unlock special cars or items you can't unlock in other parts of the game. There's also CUSTOM RACE in QUICK PLAY where you use a separate garage with a limited choice of cars until you open up the rest of the cars in CAREER MODE. You can also set the number of laps and the number of rivals for most events. There's SPLIT SCREEN for head to head racing and THE CHALLENGE SERIES, which was the meat of the game in NEED FOR SPEED HOT PURSUIT 2.

RACE TYPES include CIRCUIT, DRAG, LAP KNOCKOUT, SPEEDTRAP, SPRINT, and TOLLBOOTH.

The cars are great, but limited, and can be customized. Visual CUSTOMIZATION is rather needless for reasons I mention below. I love the MUSTANG FASTBACK. As a teen in the late 70's and early 8o's, I street raced a '66 MUSTANG with a 289 punched out to a 302, a Holley 4 barrel, a high-speed rearend, a low race cam, turbo flow mufflers, anti-sway bars, and a Cruisematic transmission. That's it!! We didn't use nitrous or computers. And that car was the fastest quarter-miler in the whole San Fernando Valley in SO CAL. The only car that ever came close to beating me was a CORVETTE. That dreaded CORVETTE is in the game too. The FORD GT is a great car and one of my favorites from GRAN TURISMO. I'm glad they included the LAMBORGINIS from HOT PURSUIT, but where are the FERRARIS? Where else can you destroy a $250,000 FERRARI and just go get another one. Bummer. You will be driving the lesser cars for a while until you earn enough money to buy better ones, but even the smaller cars FLY when you get them souped up. VERY NICE!! VERY FAST!!

One of the best things about the NEED FOR SPEED series are the car physics. HOT PURSUIT 2 did them a little better, but when you get off the road into the dirt or grass your car spins it's tires a little. When you get back on the pavement you can really feel the car gripping the asphalt. I like them better than the floaty rocket car physics of MIDNIGHT CLUB and BURNOUT. The physics are a combination of simulator and arcade. JUST AWESOME!!

WARNING TO REPLAY FANATICS: There is no REPLAY RACE feature in the game to review big events. I've only played the UNDERGROUND series on DEMO, but NEED FOR SPEED HOT PURSUIT 2 (which is my favorite racer of all time) had this feature. As do most other racing games. To me, this is a glaring oversight by EA. Having a racing game without a REPLAY is like not having one of the best features. What's the point of all the visual customization and car damage when you only see your car in the garage and at the start of a race and you're only gonna be looking at it from behind for the rest of the game? A lot of the fun is watching yourself drive after pulling off some ridiculously insane driving techniques or after causing some major damage in a police pursuit. My friends and I love to REPLAY awesome races, critique the driving, and pat ourselves on the back. It's part of the reward for a challenge well done. I mentioned this to a friend and he just groaned. I know it's not a simulator but it should be a STANDARD feature in ALL racing games. Do the race cameras eat up that much memory? I don't think so. EA blew it BIG TIME by not including this feature!! I was really having fun my first night at the game and had taken down 2 of the 15 rivals on THE BLACKLIST in CAREER MODE. But, not having a REPLAY RACE feature almost SINKS this game for me. This game would get a solid 9 from me, but not having a REPLAY brings down my score!! WHAT A DISAPPONITMENT!! I FEEL LIKE SOMEONE HAS CHOPPED OFF MY RIGHT ARM AND I CAN'T SHIFT MY RICE BURNER.

I also filled out the game registration at EA's website and have yet to receive the hints and cheat codes they promised by email. Juggleheads!!

If you can get past the fact that the game has no REPLAY feature, you're going to have a lot of fun. Me, I just can't get over it. I WANT MY REPLAY CAMERA!! I guess I'll have to turn off all the lights in my house, grab a bottle of Jack, and weep by myself in the corner.

ENJOY.

THIS SHOULD BE THE BEST GAME OF THE YEAR!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The graphics for Need For Speed Most Wanted is off the CHART!!!!! The pursuit is way more FUN then Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2. There are New feature in this game like Tollbooth and Speed Trap. You can also change your bodykit, for getting away from cops and win an oppenent's car. But, there are many races in this game, in order to be at the top of the Black List. Need For Speed Most Wanted is a mixuture of Need For Speed Underground 2 and Hot Pursuit 2. THIS SHOULD BE THE GAME OF THE YEAR!!!!!

The best Need For Speed game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am very thrilling. This game is fun, fast and very explosive. First, for the gameplay, it is good because there are a lot of cars to choose. These cars are very fast. Also, when I play the milestone portion, it has a very explosive feelings i.e. I have to violate a lot of laws. For example, hitting those police cars hard, driving in a wrong way, hit and run and resisting of arrest. I have to get to these serious stuff happen to get more bounty. More heat, longer time, more bounty. For the regular race portion, good steering when I drive. However, I have to win every race to make it count. Once I have enough race wins, milestones and bounties, I can go to challenge the blacklist opponent. For that, it has a lot of fun too. So, for the gameplay overall, it is perfect. For the music/song, it is very good. However, some music/song I heard before in other EA games. If you have other EA games, you know what I am talking about. For the visual, it is a bomb. It means it is excellent. It is awesome. The car crashing visual is real. The glass will be truly broken and I will trade the paint. Overall, an awesome and explosive game, it is one of the "must-buy game" in the Fall of 2005.

THE BEST GAME IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is really amazing. i mean...the graphics are great and has an ecxellent story topic.but what i really like are the cutscenes and the amazing cars.my favorite car would have to be the lamborghini.but the cut scenes just BLOW YOU AWAY!!!!!anyone that loves racing and police chases,then u have to get this game.im telling you,GET THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Graphics are improved, but what else?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

NFS: Most Wanted is a good game. The only thing, it seemed like, that was improved was the graphics. Gameplay was improved, but not by that much. This game seemed linear to me. Sorry, nice try.

Need For Speed: Most Wanted

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far the best tuner racing game out. Wonderful graphics and game play. Nice selection of cars to choose from and awsome time losing the 5-0. Wish they had more cars from the underground series, However this game holds its own. Must have tuning car, cop chasing, import racing, n02 using game.

Need For Speed Most Wanted..Smoking up streets all da way!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Need For Speed Most Wanted has been the most anxiously awaited game to all gamers... And now that the game is finally hit the shelves it has set the streets ablaze with its earth shattering graphics and mind blowing game play. It has some great Ea trax which include Bullet For My Valentine - Hand Of Blood and others like Static-X - Skinnyman. In the game you can do all kinds of stuff like evading the cops, racin , sprintin , Draggin , time trails and lots more . The game also features real cars like the BMW M3 GTR , MERCEDES-BENZ SLR MCLAREN and loads more... You can customize the cars much more this time and you have a large palette to choose from... you have a wide range of wide body kits as well to customize your ride the way you like it. This time need For Speed has a larger collection of decals as well so you can give your car that extra spicy look. In this game you main objective is take on the blacklist and to do that you have to be notorious and earn a name for yourself amongst the elite members of the blacklist. The cops play a BIG role in the game and believe me evading the cops ain't no walk in the park. EA has worked hard to make this game the best street racing game out there n if you ask me the sure did they're job well... The game also features some of the latest n unreleased cars like the Mitsubishi Eclipse GT and the Toyota Supra. This game to me is the Ultimate racing game!

the best out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Need for speed serie have a lot of games but yet,this one is the best!One thing thats different from the undergrounds is that the police is there ,making great poursuit unlike the undergrouds they lacked a bit because they didn t have the police.The cars are better loking than before ,the upgrades are about the same with exeptions but a coll adition is the blacklist where you have to defeat every 15 riders in order to be the most wanted and have all the rides.You get a new car when you beat a blacklist member.The town is way better because its day and the roads are easier to get to places wich in undergrouds was a bit hard to do.The car selection is good as always with 30 and more cars.There is two player as always ,the game is a vast improvement over the underground series like police,chases and the blacklist i had lot of fun with this game but i only did 15% after about 3 hours wich makes the game long,very much improved the best need for speed out there.If you want to buy it go ahead ,great game in my opinion just with the police and the-easier-to-travel towns maked this game one of the best of 05`beating pretty much every racing games out now with few exeptions as burnout.Nothing wrong here just great!

Tons of Fun But Game Freezes From Time-To-Time (Sux)

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When they said 'most wanted' they weren't kidding. Milestone or Bounty mode can have dozen of cops on your tail..shaking them off it's the most challenging and fun part of the game. I love the game over all but decided to write a review b/c I there is a major problem with the game which is from time to time it freezes w/o a reason. Especially when you are playing milestone or bounty race. It happened at least 4 times so far and usually after near completion of the milestone the game would freeze. Just a minute before the same thing happened again. Hence, I'm writing this review. If you faced the same problem plz post your review so I know I'm not the only one.

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